The health of the European microelectronics industry has never been better. This was the message from Monte Carlo  at the 2006 annual forum of MEDEA+, the pan-European microelectronics initiative. In …

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The choices cover the award of the IEEE medal of honour, Elon making plans for space development, and EECL winning an ESA contract for qualification services…

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Looking at only those written in the last week, the most popular stories on our website involve Cadence launching its ChipStack AI Super Agent, silicon wafer shipments in 2025, and Google funding datacentre construction.

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The R&S FPL1044 spectrum analyser sees Rohde & Schwarz expanding its portfolio of mid-range instruments. There’s also a new 40 MHz real-time spectrum analysis (RTSA) option for its entire FPL …

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Silanna Semiconductor is announcing its FirePower laser firing system ICs are now available in production quantities. They aim at LiDAR and rangefinder applications. Specifically, there is the SL2001 (above) and …

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Amazon CloudWatch now supports Alarm Mute Rules, enabling customers to temporarily mute alarm notifications during planned deployments, maintenance windows, and off-hours without compromising monitoring visibility. This new capability helps eliminate alert fatigue while maintaining complete situational awareness across their infrastructure.

Alarm Mute Rules transform operational workflows by allowing teams to create one-time or recurring rules that silence notifications for up to 100 individual alarms around deployment calendars, scheduled maintenance activities, or predictable off-hours periods when non-critical alerts become disruptive. Customers can configure actions for OK, ALARM, and INSUFFICIENT_DATA states, and when mute rules expire, any previously muted actions are automatically triggered as long as the alarm remains in the same state it was in when the actions were muted, ensuring critical issues are never overlooked while preventing unnecessary alert fatigue.

This eliminates the operational risk of forgotten script-based workarounds and reduces alert noise during planned activities, enabling engineering teams to focus on core business initiatives rather than managing notification fatigue.

CloudWatch Alarm Mute Rules is available today in all AWS Regions supporting alarm-level muting.

To get started, see CloudWatch User Guide for Alarm Mute Rules . You can create mute rules through the Amazon CloudWatch Console . 

Amazon Connect dashboards now provides granular access controls for analytics dashboards. This enables you to apply resource tags that control who is able to see metrics for specific resources such as agents, queues, and routing profiles. You can now filter metrics using tags to view aggregate metrics for agents or queues that share the same tags. For example, you can tag agents with Department:Customer Service to restrict dashboard metrics visibility to Customer Service team managers.

Amazon Connect dashboards are available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about dashboards, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide . To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit the Amazon Connect website .

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Update (CU23) KB5078297 for SQL Server 2022.

We recommend that you upgrade your Amazon RDS for SQL Server instances to apply this update using Amazon RDS Management Console, or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. You can learn more about upgrading your database instance in the Amazon RDS SQL Server User Guide for upgrading your RDS Microsoft SQL Server DB engine .

AWS Resource Control Policies (RCPs) now support Amazon DynamoDB . RCPs are a type of organization policy that you can use to manage permissions in your organization. RCPs offer central control over the maximum available permissions for resources in your organization.

With this expansion, you can now use RCPs to manage permissions for Amazon DynamoDB. For example, you can create policies that prevent identities outside your organization from accessing DynamoDB, helping you build a data perimeter  and enforce baseline security standards across your AWS environment.  

RCPs are available in all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more about RCPs and view the full list of supported AWS services, visit the Resource control policies (RCPs) documentation  in the AWS Organizations User Guide.

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides secure, enterprise-grade access to high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies, enabling you to build and scale generative AI applications. Today, Amazon Bedrock announced support for the latest open-weight models in Asia Pacific (Sydney) using both the bedrock-runtime and the bedrock-mantle  endpoint. These include models from industry-leading providers, including DeepSeek, Google, MiniMax, Mistral, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, Nvidia, and OpenAI. The bedrock-runtime endpoint provides Region-specific endpoints for making inference requests for models hosted in Amazon Bedrock using the InvokeModel/Converse/Chat Completions APIs. The bedrock-mantle endpoint provides Region-specific endpoints for making inference requests for models hosted in Amazon Bedrock using the OpenAI-compatible endpoints. It is powered by Project Mantle, a new distributed inference engine for large-scale machine learning model serving on Amazon Bedrock. 

To learn more and get started, visit the Amazon Bedrock console or the Amazon Bedrock service documentation .